fell apart and he decided to join the Washington Commanders.
It’s not exactly clear what happened and Kingsbury isn’t interested in giving many details. He was recently officially introduced as the CommFor a brief moment, it looked like the Las Vegas Raiders locked up Kliff Kingsbury as their new offensive coordinator. That was until contract negotiationsanders’ offensive coordinator and while he didn’t divulge much info, he did speak on the Raiders and head coach Antonio Pierce.
“I don’t want to get into the specifics but I have a tremendous amount of respect for the organization and Mark Davis and [Antonio Pierce] – huge fan of his,” Kingsbury said during his February 15 introductory press conference.
It doesn’t appear there’s any ill-will there but there was definitely a lot going on behind the scenes. It was widely reported that Kingsbury had already accepted the Raiders job so when he pulled out, it was a big surprise. Whether it was an 11th-hour push from the Commanders to hire him or the Raiders simply not giving him the contract is unclear. Regardless, Las Vegas moved forward with Luke Getsy as offensive coordinator and they aren’t looking back.
Las Vegas Raiders Lose Key Assistant
Though the Raiders decided to retain Antonio Pierce as head coach, there have been major changes to the coaching staff. Many of the coaches were hired by former head coach Josh McDaniels and have decided to move on.
According to a February 15 X post from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler, Raiders’ assistant offensive line coach Cameron Clemmons is taking the same job with the San Francisco 49ers.
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